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He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn.

Topsy was at first despised and contemned by the upper servants.

Now I say that I did not deserve to be contemned by her.

Ye who contemn the fatted slave Look on this emblem, and be brave.

Artists had been contemned before, and had lived to turn the laugh on their contemners.

Learn now to contemn all earthly things, and then mayest thou freely go unto Christ.

The army, hitherto contemned, were heroes.

He will require them As if he did contemn what he requested Should be in them to give.

I suppose you won't allow me to be an author, but I contemn you all, you dogs!

She felt irritable, tearful, contemned.

It was a life of toil; for rain and cold were more frequent than sunshine; but it was my pride to contemn the elements.

You know how I contemn physical violence ... !"

- To contemn; despise; disdain.

For I esteem those names of men so poor, Who could do mighty things, and could contemn Riches, though offered from the hand of kings.

A mere contempt to himself, the self that contemned was a coward with the self it contemned!

If he could only have felt resentment towards her he would have been less unhappy; but he pitied while he contemned her.

Again and again I request you to be merry, if anything troubles your hearts, or vex your souls, neglect and contemn it, let it pass."

Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, 390 And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles."

Posterity, perhaps, will take the easy answer: that he contemned me because I was contemptible, and that since he was a great genius his judgment must have been correct.

General theories are everywhere contemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man.

This, continues Clarendon, was an act 'of the most unnecessary provocation' on Strafford's part, 'though he contemned the man with marvellous scorn .

For indeed, every sect of them, hath a diverse posture, or cringe by themselves, which cannot but move derision in worldlings, and depraved politics, who are apt to contemn holy things.

France enfeebled, the authority of her sovereign contemned, her nobles returning to their former turbulence and insolence, her enemies within her frontiers - all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence.

In the case of a pope as controversial as John Paul II, biographers are likely either to venerate him as the embodiment of Catholicism or contemn him as its corrupter.